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  • How to end the recession? Renewable energy

                This recession should have been the perfect excuse for our country to work towards mitigating climate change.  Granted, if carbon emissions were couched in purely environmentalist terms, most Americans would wonder why we should care about the polar bears and melting glaciers—have become the iconic face of global warming—when [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:38am EST
    by msk08

  • See the Movie: The Blind Side

    Go see this great movie.   Great because it’s about Christian love – giving mercy, not ceremony, moving people to be the body of Christ in this generation.  Real people.   True story.  Makes it really great. Fun movie, personally,  because the story takes place in Memphis, Tennessee.   West Tennessee is home to [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:11pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Santorum, Dobbs in ‘12? Good grief

    Number of comments: 2
    (I noticed this accidentally never got posted, but I’m throwing it up since it gives some background on my thoughts about a potential Dobbs run in 2012) I’ve been spending the last few days thinking and writing a great deal about the future of the right and the GOP. Naturally, a [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:43pm EST
    by Craig Orndorff

  • SEIU = The mafia

    The Service Employees International Union, is starting to sound like the mob, besides having a corrupt front group know as ACORN, they now have gone on to beating up conservatives at town halls and now are threatening  boy scouts. Last week Nick “4 fingers” Balzano, an executive board member for [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:53pm EST
    by Garrett Watson

  • Kissing Bandit in Loudoun

    There is a Kisser on the loose. Over in Loudon County a man, maybe a foreigner, is kissing random joggers. See the video here
    Loudoun County Sheriff's officers have identified and talked to the man believed to have kissed at least four female joggers last week in Sterling.

    [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:04pm EST
    by Phil

  • Senate Races Update

    Two quick pieces of news from the race for the Senate in 2010. First, polls are out showing Rudy! up over Kirsten Gillibrand from Rassmussen (H/T Surrounded by Idiots): A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state finds Giuliani, the former Republican mayor of New York City, leading [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:29pm EST
    by Craig Orndorff

  • Tim Kaine’s “Farewell Virginia, Hello Statism” Tour

    From Ryan Nobles at Richmond’s NBC12 comes this gem about how Governor Kaine will be spending some of his final hours in office: Virginia Governor Tim Kaine will make a tour of a series of Restaurants on the day one of his signature legislative accomplishments goes into effect. On December 1st, [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:14pm EST
    by Craig Orndorff

  • Headline to be thankful for

    Kim Stassel in the Wall Street Journal offers the good news
    'Cap and Trade Is Dead'
    Internationally, world leaders finally acknowledged that the recession has sapped them of their political power to impose devastating new carbon-restrictions. China and India are clear they won't join the West in an economic suicide' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:12pm EST

  • Michaele Salahi

    Number of comments: 3
    The Salahis caused quite a stir by crashing the White House reception for the Prime Minister of India.  The AP reports: The Virginia couple who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a “deeply concerned and embarrassed” Secret Service acknowledged [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:11pm EST
    by 200 Grande

  • End of the Semester Christmas Party!

    Join the College Republicans for an End of the Year Pot-luck! Details: Rides will be provided starting at 6:30 pm. If you’d like to meet us there, the address is: 3511 Prince William Drive, Fairfax VA, 22031 Please RSVP and write on the facebook wall what you plan on bringing and if you need [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:27pm EST
    by Not Jim Moran

  • Soon to be gone

    Locator

    Nature is trying to reclaim this building along South Main Street in Harrisonburg, and teenagers with brightly colored paint tried to get it first. The construction of the Erickson Avenue Extension will finally take it before anything else can. The highway will be the building’s conclusion, [...]

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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:12pm EST
    by JGFitzgerald

  • Thanksgiving History


    Plymouth was an early economic object lesson:

    In 1620 Plymouth Plantation was founded with a system of communal property rights. Food and supplies were held in common and then distributed based on equality and need as determined by Plantation officials. People received the same rations whether or not [...]

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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:12pm EST

  • COMMENTS ON GREEN METROPOLIS

    Number of comments: 2
    The “READ IT NOW” post is long so here is a place to comment on David Owen’s book Green Metropolis: Why living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability.

    It would be most constructive if comments here were focused on what you learned from [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:34pm EST
    by E M Risse

  • Time Has Come Today

    Number of comments: 9
    A fortnightly MY FINAL rant, FL-S style. During the past couple of days, some of you caught the string of YouTube videos posted to Fred2Blue. Much was foreshadowed by them. And how great was that Viking Funeral? YES FOLKS, Chris Guy and I have decided that the time has come to for us to leave [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Dan Smolen

  • Lobbyists Kicked Off Advisory Panels

    Thousands of lobbyists are being swept off federal advisory panels thanks to a policy initiated quietly by President Obama at the instigation of White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen.  Eisen disclosed the policy on the White Houe blog last September, saying:
    "Some folks have developed a comfortable Beltway perch sitting" [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:20am EST

  • A lot to be Thankful for

    It's not easy to pick up and dust off after a tough fall. This election was a tough one for Democrats in Virginia. In spite of an unprecedented effort by the Virginia Young Democrats and Democrats all over the Commonwealth, we lost. Even with this loss, however, we have [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:18am EST

  • Breats Cancer screening: is it health care rationing?

    Breast cancer screening has risks - risks of exposure to unnecssary procedures like biopsies, that have risks of their own. When healthy women get biopsied and the biopsy goes wrong - produces infection and scarring, for example, the risks outweigh the benefits. That is why asymptomatic healthy women with no [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:53am EST

  • We Inspire, But Do We Aspire?

    Two stories caught our eye today, as we woke from our Thanksgiving nap. In the Philippines, Ismael Mangudadatu successfully filed his candidate certificate for governor.  So what’s the big deal? Monday, a caravan of vehicles carrying 57 people, including Mangudadatu’s wife, two sisters, supporters and journalists were massacred and their bodies dumped [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:50am EST
    by Great Blue

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